Selected Political Writings of John Thelwall Vol 3 by Robert Lamb Corinna Wagner

Author:Robert Lamb, Corinna Wagner [Robert Lamb, Corinna Wagner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General
ISBN: 9781000748598
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Of the generality of these, illustrations may be found in the article now before us. Of the Jeff quotative a very perfect specimen is exhibited and emblazoned in the Text; and, as for the Jeff negative, it is so great a favourite with the Reviewer, that he has absolutely appealed to it, in every instance, where any thing occurred which it was the real object of the Memoir to record.

Of the other kinds, it is curious to observe with what skilful diversity he has arranged the different species, – so as to produce a perfect mosaic of these, his favourite embellishments. Thus, (for example) – in the very first paragraph of the pretended analysis of the Memoir, – which consists only of five short sentences, there are four distinct specimens of four distinct kinds of JEFFS – to wit – 1. The Jeff magnificative, by which the ‘tardiness and apparent ineptiutde’ resulting from temporary derangements of health, and from the gloom and depression that clouded my mind, after the loss of my father, is quoted as the general characteristic of my boyhood. 2. The Jeff stradulative, by which (striding at once over the circumstance of my settled attachment to the profession of an artist; – for which my father had trained me) he represents, as my first and favourite project, that appeal to the stage, which, in reality, was a mere transient suggestion of disappointment, when the more eligible mode of escaping from an unhappy situation was denied me. [See the particulars in a future note.] 3. The Jeff interpolative – by which, without the least shadow of pretence, he makes ‘my own consciousness of the want of voice’ one of the motives that compelled me to give up the idea.’ 4. The comes the Jeff invertive, in which the only mention is made (and that out of its place) of ‘an unsuccessful attempt to become a painter.’

In this way does he go on, inlaying, tessellating and diversifying, with all the address that characterises his peculiar genius; till, on a ground plot of only seventy lines of analytical abridgement, he has inlayed no less than fifteen different specimens of his favourite embellishment. In twenty-six lines more of declamation and criticism, that follow, he has been somewhat more sparing; as, in the whole of that extent, only three distinct and absolute Jeffs are inserted. What is wanted in number, however, is made up in magnitude: and one of these Jeffs, in particular, (to which all due honour is endeavoured to be paid in the text above) – is an absolute constellation of itself.

Nor let it be supposed – that, in this ornamental masaic, it is only of the more modest specimens (such as have already been exemplified,) that the artist has made his dispositions: Jeffs of a bolder splendour, and of more glaring colours, strikingly diversify the picture. The Jeff major itself, indeed, appears to be his principal favourite.

Thus, – speaking of my three years residence in Wales, the Reviewer has the following words – ’He was persecuted, he affirms, by all his neighbours.

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